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JTi^tory of (^ampbell (jounty. 



In accordance with the President's Proclamation of May 25, 
of this centennial year, this sketch of Campbell County, in the 
State of Kentucky, is made from the earliest attainable data up 
to the present period. 

In order to trace the origin of the County, to determine who 
.first beheld and owned it, it is necessary to begin with tradition. 
Tradition relates that more than two centuries before the white 
man came, two mighty nations of the red man had contended for 
the " Dark and Bloody Ground," so named from the river 
Kentucky signifying " River of Blood." Of their several tribes 
none had dared to occupy the territory, but here they came in 
turn, to chase the panther, the bear, the wolf, the fox, the wild- 
cat, the deer, the elk and the buffalo ; and here they battled with 
each other. In proof of which, scattered over the hills and val- 
leys, quantities of Indian arrow-heads, beads, pipes and graves 
were found by the early settlers, who learned from the different 
tribes their legendary history. 

Of the Europeans who first sailed down the Ohio river, none 
can doubt that they were Frenchmen. The French had built a 
chain of forts, extending from Canada to Louisiana, which gave 
them the command of the great rivers, of which the discovery of 
the Ohio was accorded to La Salle, a Frenchman. Both France 
and England claimed the vast domain between the Allegheny 
mountains and the Mississippi river, and each nation endeavored 
to obtain possession of this magnificent country. The key to the 
Ohio was the French post, Fort Duquesne. 

As early as 1754, Robert Dinwiddle, His Majesty's Lieutenant- 
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Virginia, issued a procla- 



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mation, offering- to give two hundred thousand acres of his Majesty 
the King of Great Britain's lands, on the east side of the River 
Ohio, to those patriots who would volunteer to build a fort at the 
fork of Monongahela, and to defend the frontier from the encroach- 
ments of the French and Indians. 

In 1755, the King of England sent over Gen.Braddock to com- 
mand an expedition of the Colonists against Fort Duquesne ; Brad- 
dock was defeated and slain. Three years after, in 1758, Colonel 
George Washington obtained a decisive victory over the French 
and Indians, who burned and evacuated Fort Duquesne, and Fort 
Pitt was at once erected on the same site. 

Thus was the way opened Tor King George's Colony of Virginia 
to people her extensive county of Fincastle. 

FINCASTLE. 

The tide of emigration flowed to this Eldorado of the then far 
west. The bounty-lands were apportioned and patented to the 
officers and soldiers according to rank. Captain William Crawford 
was appointed to survey these lands, and while thus engaged, was 
captured, barbarously tortured, and murdered by the Indians. 

Among the earliest pioneers to descend the Ohio as far as this 
point, was Simon Kenton, who arrived in 1771, and was the first 
person known to have ascended the Licking from its mouth. In 
July, 1773, Hancock Taylor, in company with Gapt. Thomas Bul- 
litt, the McAfees, and others, landed at the mouth of the Licking. 
They went to the Big-Bone Lick and spent several days in making 
seats and tent poles from the large mastodon bones which they 
found there. 

Hence, one hundred years ago, when Liberty Bell pealed "de- 
fiance" to the mother country, this vast wilderness was being ex- 
plored by Boone, Kenton, Taylor, George Rogers, Clark, and a 
host of daring men, chiefly from Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the 
Carolinas. The next important advance was in December, 1776. 
when to a portion of the extensive County of Fincastle was given 
the name Kentucky. 

KENTUCKY COUNTY. 

The mouth of the Licking, called by the Indians Nep-e-pem- 
iiii-ni, was a noted point in the war-path of the savage tribes; 



HISTORY OF CAMPBELL COUXTY. 3 

here they met for hunting and for battle ; here they hid their 
boats, and made attacks upon the settlers ; and here in 1779 oc- 
curred the memorable fight, known as " Rodgers' Defeat," thus 
related by McClung : 

" In the autumn of 1779, a number of keel boats were ascending 
the Ohio, under the command of Maj. Rodgers, and had advanced 
as far as the mouth of the Licking without accident. Here they 
saw a few Indians standing on a sand bar opposite Dayton, while 
a canoe rowed by three others, was in the act of putttng off from 
the Kentucky shore as if to take them aboard. Rodgers ordered 
his boats to be made fast on the Kentucky shore, while the crew, 
to the number of seventy men, well armed, cautiously advanced in 
such manner as to encircle the spot where he had seen the enemy. 
Only five or six Indians had been seen, and no one dreamed of 
encountering more than fifteen or twenty. When Rodgers had, 
as he supposed, completely surrounded the enemy, and was pre- 
paring to rush upon them from several quarters, he was thunder- 
struck at beholding several hundred savages suddenly spring up 
in front, rear and upon both flanks." 

The slaughter of the whites was almost total. 
In the spring of 1780, Hubbard Taylor, a youth of twenty, 
procuring the ofiice of a Deputy Surveyor for the County called 
Kentucky, came out from Virginia to locate lands for his father, 
Col. James Taylor, and for Ool. George Muse, on the Ohio, and at 
the mouth of the Licking. 

Another step forward, and in the autumn of 1780, the County 
of Kentucky was divided into three, Jeiferson, Lincoln and Fayette ; 
of the last named, from which Campbell was destined to be carved, 
John Todd was appointed Colonel, Daniel Boone, Lieutenant- 
Colonel, and Thomas Marshall, Surveyor. 

In 1782, Jacob Fowler, a famous woodsman, piloted Bowman and 
Logan with nearly a thousand men from Lexington to the mouth 
of the Licking, to join General George Rogers Clark, in his sue. 
cessful expeditions against the Miami towns. This intrepid 
pioneer, Jacob Fowler, built the first cabin at the point of Licking 
in 1789 ; he fought at both Harmer's and St Clair's defeats, and 
was with General Anthony Wayne in his victory of 1794. 

The creation from Fayette of two new Counties, Woodford and 
Mason, in 1788, marked the next progress of events. 



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4 HISTORY OF CAMPBELL COUNTY, 

In this year a settlement was begun opposite the mouth of the 
Licking, by Colonel Jc^n. Patterson, and one John Filson, for 
which the singular name L'osantiville, was compounded by Filson ; 
L' was the French for the ; os was" Latin for mouth ; anti for 
against ; and ville was French for city, hence, " The City opposite 
the mouth." A year after, this name was changed to Cincinnati, 
and in the summer of 1789, Major Doughty arrived with one hun- 
dred and forty soldiers and built Fort Washington. Protected by 
the garrison, the settlement at Cincinnati added an impetus to 
immigration into the new County of Mason. 

LEITCH'S STATION. 

Major David Leitch, a Scotchman, and a revolutionary officer, 
came with about twenty followers in 1789, built a block-house 
with pickets, and established Leitch's Station on the Licking, 
about six miles from its mouth. Major Leitch located a large body of 
land, gave leases to settlers for improvements, and sold portions 
to Thomas Lindsay, Bernard Stewart, Archer, Reese, Digby and 
others. 

About the same period, William Kennedy, also a Scotchman, and 
a Kentucky surveyor, with his son James, and his son-in-law Ben- 
jamin Beal, came to Flag Spring. James Kennedy played finely 
on the fiddle ; he had been a class-mate at school of Scotland's 
great poet, Robert Burns, aidhsftid-be had often listened while he 
played " Highland Mary." These were the first actual settlers 
who formed the nucleus for the population of our now flourishing 
County. ^o'^4^ /Cl 

The first white child born in the County was Eliza Barfte, 
daughter of John Barlte. She was born in Newport in 1791 ; was 
married when young to Elijah Pierce ; and lived to see this cen- 
tennial year, but was recently followed to the grave by a large 
procession, her venerable husband surviving. 

Notwithstanding the perils of the wilderness. Major Leitch, in 
1791, brought his young bride of seventeen (who was Miss Keturah 
Moss) to visit their intended home at the station ; Miss Moss was 
one of the earliest pioneers to Kentucky, emigrating from Vir- 
ginia in 1783 to Bryan's Station. She was reared under the discip- 
line of those fearless women whose couraije has become historic. 



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HISTORY OF CA3IPBELL COUNTY. 5 

An instance of Mrs. Leitch's heroism is worthy of mention. In 
1791, Major Leitch and his young wife were going, in company 
with Mr. Thomas Lindsay, and others, under a military escort, 
from the mouth of the Kentucky toward Frankfort. Mr. Lindsay 
had lagged behind more than a hundred yards, when the guard 
saw an Indian ; they encircled Mrs. Leitch, and urged her to hurry 
on, as they feared other savages in ambush, but she declared that 
she would not desert Mr. Lindsay, and turning her horse's head, 
she refused to move until he came in sight, when she waved to 
him to hasten, which he did in a gallop, 

XEWPORT. 

In October, 1791, when the Kentucky troops went frpm Lexing- 
ton to Fort Washijigton to go on St. Clair's campaign, Hubbard 
Taylor accompanied them to the mouth of the Licking. As agent 
for his father, he laid out some lots on the river, and called the 
place Newport, in honor of Captain Lord Nfewport, who came 
over in the first ship to old Jamestown. 

STATE OF KENTUCKY. 

The year 1792 beheld Kentucky admitted as a State, the second 
daughter of the Union. The result was a stream of immigration 
to this 'i-Land of the Cane." In 1792, James Taylor, son of the 
proprietor of Newport, visited Mason county ; he found one hun- 
dred and fifty persons living in Cincinnati, including the military ; 
while over in Newport there were only a feAV rude log cabins. 
Pleased with the prospect, he fixed upon a beautiful ridge for his 
future home, and returned to Virginia. The next year. May 3, 
he landed at the mouth of the Licking. The sun was just rising 
as he caught the first glimpse of Fort Washington ; we can imagine 
better than describe his feelings of hope and joy when he heard 
the bugle sound, and beheld the flag of his country — the signal of 
safety. 

James Taylor brought with him an Englishman, named Robert 
Christy, and his wife ; also two slaves, able-bodied men ; two 
blooded horses, and a boat load of iron ware, pots, kettles, axes, 
hoes, etc., which he had bought at Pittsburg. Thus furnished, he 
began cutting down trees, and clearing the underbrush, and assisted 
in building his own cabin. 



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There was not one person at that time in Newport, man or 
woman, who wore shoes, — all wore moccasins made of deer skin. 
The chief citizens of Newport, at that date, were Jacob and Edward 
Fowler, Uriah Hardesty, Jacob Barrackraan, James McClure, 
David Lewis, John Bartle, and Robert Benham. 

In company with the two Fowlers, James Taylor marked out 
the first road from Newport towards Lexington. In the autumn 
of 1793, an expedition was planned to hunt buffaloes at Big-Bone 
Lick. The party killed twenty-three of these immense animals. 
They took down salt (which was then five dollars per bushel), 
and salted the meat at the Lick. 

GEANT'S LICK. 

About the same period salt water was found at Grant's Lick, by 
Samuel Bryant, who, in conjunction with John Grant, and Charles 
Morgan, sank a well, and began the manufacture of salt, with 
which they supplied the interior of Kentucky. 

Charles Morgan was a renowned Indian fighter, and an energetic 
settler. In 1790, he cleared the first farm in what is now Camp- 
bell County, three miles from the mouth of Licking. He gave it to 
his son-in-law, David Morton, and it is now the property of Col. 
James Taylor, of Newport. 

CAMPBELL COUNTY. ^ 

Fourteen years after the formation of the County of Kentucky 
in 1794, Campbell was erected out of parts of Mason, Scott and 
Harrison. In the year 1795, James Taylor married the widow 
Leitch, uniting the two largest estates in the county. During the 
same year, Mr. Washington Berry came with his family from Clark 
County, he had moved from Virginia two years before, and had 
purchased from the daughters of Col. George Muse, a tract of a 
thousand acres, where the town of Dayton is situated, for a thou- 
sand dollars. Mrs. Berry was sister to Hubbard and James Taylor, 
and daughter of the proprietor of Newport, having been reared to 
womanhood in the colony. Mrs. Berry possessed many of the 
graces and accomplishments which characterized the ladies of the 
Old Dominion. 

NEWPOKT A TOWN. 

In 1795, Newport was incorporated as a town, the charter vest- 



HISTORY OF CAMPBELL COUNTY. 7 

ing in Thomas Kennedy. Washington Berry, Henry Brasher, 
Thomas Lindsey, Nathan Kelley, James McLure and Daniel Dug- 
2an. Soon after came laroje reinforcements of settlers. 

In 1795, Mr. Richard Southgate, a gentleman of superior edu- 
cation, and a lawyer of eminence, moved out from Virginia. Dr. 
Hinde, who had been an assistant-surgeon at the siege of Quebec, 
came from Glark County with his family. Dr. Hinde was the father 
of Mrs. Southgate and Mrs. Edmund Taylor, afterwards Mrs. 
McKenny. Major McKenny, who was an aid-de-camp to Gen. 
Lafayette, was also one of the early settlers in Newport. 

In 1795, Daniel Mayo was appointed the first postmaster, Jas. 
McLure kept the first store, Jacob Fowler the first tavern, and 
John Bartle the first ferry. For many years skiflFs and flats were 
used, they in time yielded to the horse-boat, which, in turn, was 
superseded by the steam ferry-boat. The first ferry-boat com- 
manders were Captains George and John Doxon, and afterward 
the late Captain Robert Air, all highly esteemed citizens of Camp- 
bell County. The currency of early times was measured like that 
of the colony by L. s. d. (pounds, shillings and pence), and so scarce 
was coin, that wolf, raccoon and fox skins were used as a circula- 
ting medium. The Mexican silver dollar was afterwards cut into 
small pieces to make change. 

COUNTY SEAT. 
In 1796, Newport was declared the county seat, the first courts 
had been held at Wilmington (now in Kenton), and the County 
Court Justices were Robert Benham, Thomas Kennedy, John 
Hall, John Bush, John Ewing and Thomas Corwin. The Justices 
of the first quarter sessions Court, were, Washington Berry presid- 
ing, Capt. John Craig and Charles Daniel, Sr.; James Taylor 
was the first clerk of both courts ; and Nathan Kelley was the 
first Sherifi" of Campbell County. 

RELIGIOX. 

The Religions which obtained the first hold upon Campbell were 
the Baptist and Methodist. 

EDUCATION. 
There were at first many obstacles to the progress of education, 
books were few, and for the primary classes, paddles were substi- 



HISTORY OF CA3fPBELL COUNTY 



tuted, upon which were pasted the alphabet, and the simplest 
spelling and reading lessons. 

Col. James Taylor, the proprietor, had donated two acres to the 
town for public use, and a log school-house was erected thereon. 

'The cause of learning was further advanced in 1799, by the 
organization of a School Board. The General Assembly had the 
year before passed an act creating the Newport Academy, and 
had endowed the same with six thousand acres of land. Pursuant 
to this Act of the General Assembly, William Kennedy, Washing- 
ton Berry, Charles Morgan, John Grant, Thomas Kennedy. Thomas 
Sanford, Thomas Carneal, Richard Southgate, Daniel Mayo, John 
Crittenden, Robert Stubbs, and James Taylor, were appointed 
Trustees of the " Newport Academy." They met at the house of 
Jacob Fowler, 21st September, 1799. The Board appointed Ed- 
mund Taylor, clerk ; and chose Washington Berry, chairman ; 
Bernard Stewart was elected to fill a vacancy ; Charles Morgan, 
was chosen treasurer ; James Taylor was selected to locate the 
lands, and Robert Stubbs was invited to take charge of the 
Seminary. " The Board agreed to furnish him with a house and 
seventeen acres of cleared land, and to pay him seventy-five 
pounds annually for three years ; and if the number of scholars 
should amount to more than the sum aforesaid, at the rate of eight 
dollars for an English scholar, four pounds for each Latin scholar, 
and those learning English Grammar, and any branch of the 
mathematics, the said Stubbs should have the benefit of the sur- 
plus." The Rev. Stubbs accepted, and came in the spring of 1800. 

Robert Stubbs was an Englishman, and a minister of the Episco- 
pal Church ; he moved out from Virginia to Scott, next to Boone, 
and from thence to Campbell. Among the scholars whom he in- 
structed were, Richard M. Johnson, who became Vice-President of 
the United States ; John McLean, late justice of the Supreme 
Bench ; Taylor and Hubbard Berry, Thos. D. Kennedy, Philip S. 
Bush, Alexander P. and Alfred Sandford, James Ewbank, James 
Garrard, Oner R. Powell, and Col, James Taylor, who alone sur- 
vives. After teaching a year at the Academy, Mr. Stubbs went to 
the country, just about the Two-Mile House, on the Alexandria 
Pike. He opened a boarding-school for boys, and taught the 
classics. It was the custom of this remarkable man to walk up 



HISTOEY OF CA3IPBELL COUJ>^TT. 9 

and down under the trees before his door, reciting Latin and 
Greek, to the astonishment of the passers by, who regarded him 
with awe. 

By reason of his sacerdotal office, the Reverend Stubbs was sent 
for, far and wide, to marry the early inhabitants : he also knew 
the mystic virtue of the hazel-bough as described by Virgil, could 
discover hidden springs, and was often employed to tell where wells 
should be dug. Mr. Stubbs calculated the first almanac ever made 
west of the Allegheny mountains. 

IN" 1800. 
Early in the new century many settlers came to our County, 
William Caldwell, Col. David Perry, Peter Mc Arthur, Hezekiah 
Hayman, John Murman and others. Their descendants are now 
among the leading citizens of Newport and the County. 

NEWPORT BARRACKS. 

In 1803, General James Taylor, as agent for his father and 
other owners, sold to the government the ground upon which the 
barracks are situated. General Charles Scott, of Kentucky, pay- 
ing the purcliase money, and receiving the deed for the govern- 
ment. General Taylor accepted the agency to erect the buildings. 
He says: " The masonry of stone and brick was let out by contract 
to the lowest bidders, and taken by John Metcalf and Daniel Mayo. 
John Metcalf was uncle to Governor Thomas Metcalf, who it is 
said worked on the buildings as a stone mason, the carpenter 
work was take by Stephen Lyon, and the joiner work by Amos 
B. Watson, a very ingenious cabinetmaker from New York. 
General Scott was required to come down from Frankfort to in- 
spect the barracks, and report to the War Department ; his report 
was in high terms of the execution of the trust The work was 
completed in 1804. 

MAJOR MARTIN. 

Major Thomas Martin, a distinguished revolutionary officer, 
was the first commandant of Newport barracks ; he was also the 
military store keeper. Major Martin possessed extraordinary 
physical prowess and infinite humor ; he was exceedingly popular 
in dispensing his hospitality and good cheer to the officers ; and it 
is related " that their parting- toast over the flowing bowl was: 



10 HISTOEY OF CAMPBELL COUN'TT. 

'•Miijor Martin, may the war last as long as he lives, and the troops 
lay at the mouth of the Licking." 

In 1811 and '12, Newport barracks was the chief depot for 
military stores. From here were sent supplies of ammunition, arms 
and provisions, to General Harrison at Vincennes. Here in 1811 
General Boyd caipe with the gallant Fourth Infantry ; for six 
months their tents ranged from the mouth of Licking to Taylor's 
Creek, and from here they marched to the bloody battle of Tip- 
pecanoe. Some of the most distinguished officers of our army 
have been stationed at this post, Zachary Taylor when Captain, 
General Posey, GeneralJessup and Colonel Whistler. From New- 
port barracks many a brave soldier has gone forth to meet death 
for his country. The people of Campbell, inheriting from their 
pioneer ancestors a love . of military glory, have ever been quick 
to respond to the call " to arms." During the late war with 
Great Britain in 1812, many of our citizens enlisted, and one of 
the most gallant actions of the war was performed by Major James 
T. Ewbank of this place. General Harrison (afterwards President), 
wrote thus : " At Fort Meigs, during the seige of that important 
Fortress, Major Ewbank rendered the most important services, not 
only in his particular department, but by volunteering his services 
for the performance of other duties. One instance of which deserves 
to be particularly mentioned. On the eventful 5th of May, the 
squadron of dragoons commanded by Major Ball, had been 
detached to cover the landing of a part of the Kentucky militia, 
from boats descending the Maumee river. From the discovery of 
a meditated attack upon the rear by the enemy, it became neces- 
sary to recall the dragoons. But the conveyance of the order for 
the purpose was a service of extreme danger, as the person who 
should bear it would necessarily be exposed to the fire of a party 
of Indians who occupied a wood within point blank shot of the 
route which he would be obliged to pass. This circumstance was 
mentioned to the officers who were convened near, and a volunteer 
asked for, to convey the order ; Major Ewbank immediately offered 
his services, and performed the duty at the utmost hazard, hav- 
ing been fired on by the Indians from their covered positions 
for a considerable part of the distance. For his other services, 
and particularly for the important one rendered on this occasion^ 



ni STORY OF CAMPBELL COUNTY. 11 



he obtained my entire confidence and approbation, and I think they 
gave him claims upon his country. W. H. Harrison." 

MILITIA MUSTERS. 

In early days, the musters of the militia were the great events. 
In 1804, Brigadier-General James Taylor commanded the Twenty- 
Second Brigade of the Kentucky Militia; Thomas Sanford was 
Colonel of the Forty-Eighth Regiment ; Christopher SteAvart, Cap- 
tain ; and Edmund Taylor, Lieutenant, of a company belonging to 
Campbell. The late Captain Samuel Perry, who was a soldier at 
the siege of Fort Meigs, was a noted trainer of the militia men, in 
which he took great pride. 

In 1812, General James Taylor, who had been acting as Quar- 
termaster and Paymaster of all the disbursements in and about the 
Newport garrison, was appointed Quartermaster-General and Pay- 
master-General for the army of the Northwest, and marched with 
General Hull to Detroit, where that officer ingloriously surren- 
dered. 

The Fourth of July, in former times, was usually celebrated with 
the enthusiasm of early patriotism ; barbecues, processions, the 
reading of the Declaration, an oration, and military reviews, were 
the order of the day. An old paper of 1817 shows that the forty- 
first birthday of Independence was honored in Newport by a grand 
military parade and drill of the Volunteer Rifles. 

General James Taylor was President of the day. 

J. T. McKenney, Captain, 

Sam'l Winston, Lieutenant. 

Sam'l M. Cliff"ord, Ensign. 

Elijah Pierce, Samuel Carter, Reese Gaddis and Col. James 
Taylor, are the only surviving members of that military company. 

In 1824, Captain John Cleves Symraes, a citizen of Newport, 
who had several years previous advanced his theory of "Concen- 
tric Spheres," delivered lectures to prove that land and a mild 
■climate could be found at the North Pole. 

CITY OF NEWPORT. 
Newport was created a city in 1830, by the election of six trus- 
tees, and the late Major Francis T. Helm, Mayor. 

The first Railroad meeting was held at the Newport Exchange, 



12 HISTORY OF CAMPBELL COUNTY. 

Ma}' 28, 1836. Col. John W. Tibbatts was appointed President, 
John N. Taliaferro, Vice-President, and W. A. Pendleton, Secre- 
tary. The object was to consider the practicability of building a 
railroad from Newport to Lexington, to form a part of the Charles- 
ton and Cincinnati Railroad, which it was hoped would ter- 
minate at Cincinnati. It was then almost the same project as the 
one which is now being carried on, called "The Southern Railroad." 

Our County, at the period when it received the name of Camp- 
bell, in 1794, embraced a very large territory. Two years after, in 
1796, it furnished a portion on the southeast to form Bracken ; 
two years after, in 1798, parts were taken off on the south and 
west to erect Pendleton and Boone; and in 1840 the western half 
of Campbell became Kenton, the Licking the dividing line. In 
this year, the seat of justice was moved to Alexandria, and thereby 
the facilities for developing the County were increased. About 
this time the County began to receive large accessions of immi- 
grants from Europe, chiefly from Germany. These foreigners 
brought with them habits of industry, thrift and endurance. The 
Germans with their gold and silver bought much of the land, and 
in a few years the vine-clad hills of the Ohio and the Licking made 
for them another Rhine-land. In the towns and villagesj the 
many signs with Teutonic names prove the firm hold they have 
gained in every department of life, and demonstrate the necessity 
for the study of the German language. 

The Irish, of whom there had always, since the first settlement, 
been some representatives in the County, began to seek homes 
among us. They have made their mark and identified themselves 
with our people. St. Patrick's day is now celebrated in Newport 
with the same music and processions as in "The Emerald Isle." 

When in 1845 the Mexican War aroused the patriotism of the 
land, a company of voulunteers was raised in Newport, and the 
command given to Captain Lytleton Bennett. An address was made 
to the Company by Col. James Taylor, and a flag presented by. 
Miss Jordena Harris (the late Mrs. Foote). •: 

In 1847, Col. John W. Tibbatts, of the 16th Regiment of Infantry, 
Regulars, went to Mexico, taking with him many of the young 
men of Newport and vicinity. 

In 1848 and '9, the increased population of Campbell County ex- 



HISTORY OF CAMPBELL COUNTY. 13 



tended itself along the river : and from Major James Berry's large 
plantation, and other adjoining farms, sprang the two villages, 
Jamestown and Brooklyn. 

In October, 1849, a convention was held at Frankfort, to frame 
the present constitution of the State. Ira Root had the honor of 
representing the County of Campbell in that distinguished assem- 
blage. Mr. Root was a friend to education, and an ardent supporter 
of the public school system. In the late civil war the Union senti- 
ment prevailed throughout the County. 

PEOGRESS. 

Within the past thirty years, the -causes of religion and educa- 
tion have been progressive. There are now, in Newport, two 
Methodist, two Presbyterian, one Baptist, one Episcopal, two Ger- 
man Protestant, and three Roman Catholic churches, besides one 
Baptist church for the colored population, one congregation of the 
Christian Church, and several religious Catholic houses. In the 
other towns, and in the County, all these denominations have 
churches and meeting houses. St, Joseph's Catholic Orphan Asy- 
lum 'for boys, and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd's Angel 
Guardian for destitute girls, are flourishing charitable institutions. 

EDUCATION. 

The public schools have advanced in both County and city to a 
degree of which we may well be proud ; not only are the rudiments 
taught, but th3 principles of the sciences, the polite arts, and two 
languages, French and German, have been added to the course of 
study. The young men and women of Newport may now take 
their diplomas and qualify as teachers. At the last exhibition of 
the graduating class in May of this centennial year, there were 
twelve young ladies and one young gentleman. They all spoke 
their essays, which were highly creditable. -v 

For many years an effort has been made to sustain a newspaper 
in Newport. The Weekly Leader, neutral in politics and religion, 
has been ably edited for five years by Messrs. J. B. and A. L. 
Quimby. 

In 1866, the villages of Jamestown and Brooklyn were united 
under the name of Dayton. In 1870, Belleview, just below Day- 
ton, on the Ohio, was incorporated as a town ; it is separated from 



U MISTOBY OF CAMPBELL COVNTY. 



Newport by Taylor's Creek. Alexandria, the county seat, is 
thirteen miles from Newport; Carthage and California are flour- 
ishing villages ; John's Hill, Cold Spring, Indian Spring, Gubser's 
Mill, Grant's Lick, and the Highlands, are voting precincts and 
settlements. 

Four fine turnpike roads lead from Newport. The street cars 
run from Newport through Covington, over to Cincinnati, and also 
from Newport to Dayton. Three splendid bridges span the rivers, 
nil within sight of each other. The wire suspension bridge, con- 
necting Covington and Newport, was built in 1854. Soon after 
icwas opened for travel, it fell, with two men on horseback, and 
nineteen head of cattle belonging to Mr. Joseph Morlidge. One 
horse and six of the beeves were killed. The cost to repair 
made the whole amount to about §101,000. The still finer struc- 
ture of the suspension bridge, from Covington to Cincinnati, was 
erected in 1869, at the cost of §1,700,000. In 1872, the iron 
railroad bridge was finished. It required four years to complete 
this stupendous bridge, and many laborers were killed by falling, 
while at work upon it. The first trains crossed April 1, 1872. 
The Louisville Short Line Railroad runs a few miles through the 
County, having its depot in Newport, and a. station near Three- 
Mile Creek, where a railroad bridge spans the Licking, and the 
train goes on to Louisville in about four hours. 

POLITICAL. 

Our County has been ably represented in the National and State 
Legislatures. Of the distinguished dead of Campbell, whose ser- 
vices in congress are remembered with pride, we may mention the 
names of Thomas Sanford, William Wright Southgate and John W, 
Tibbatts. Of the honored dead, who have represented Campbell 
in the State Legislature, we recall the names of Richard Southgate, 
Thomas Sanford, Leonard Stephens, Alexander P. and Alfred 
Sanford, William Wright Southgate, John W. Tibbatts, Horatio T. 
Harris, John N. Taliaferro, William and T. W. W. De Coursey, Ira 
Root and Charles J. Helm. 

This being the Centennial year, it is in order to present the 
names of the public men to whom the control of affairs is confided. 
Ill the United States Senate, we have the Hon : John W. Steven- 
son and the Hon, Thomas C. McCreery ; Member of Congress from 



II rS TOUT OF CAMPBELL COUNTY. 15 

the Sixth District, Hon. Thomas L. Jones ; members of the past 
Legislature: Senate, General George B. Hodge; Representatives, 
Col. R. W. Nelson and Air. J. D. Otten ; Judges of the Chancery 
Court, Hon. J. W. Menzies ; of the Circuit Court, Judge Strother 
Boyd ; of the Criminial Court, Judge John Perkins ; and of the . 
County Court, Judge Washington J. Berry. • * r, 

County Officers. — Hon. W. J. Berry, County Judge; Edward ' ' , 
Air, County Clerk ; Jno. S. Ducker, County Attorney ; Thomas 
Jones, County Sheriff; 0. M. Winson, County Coroner ; B. A. 
Boyer, County Surveyor ; John Greenwood, County Jailor ; John 
Tocher, County Assessor; John C. Schroll, Circuit Clerk; 
Gustavus Artsman, Master Commissioner ; L. Tibbatts, School 
Commissioner. 

City Officers. — A. S. Berry, Mayor; Samuel Geisler, City 
Judge ; L. R. Hawthorn, City Clerk ; Eugene E. Bowers^ City 
Treasurer; George Hornung, Sup't Water Works; D. R. Lock, 
City Marshal; B.R.Morton, City Engineer; R. Barrett, Street 
Commissioner ; Jonathan Horsfall, City Jailor ; John Link, Capt. 
Fire Department; Clement Olhaber, President of School Board. 

The original proprietor of the town of Newport was never here, 
being an old man, and having filled a life of long public service 
under the king in the colony, and in the State Legislature of 
Virginia, he was unwilling to come to a new country. 

His descendants have always had an influence in the affairs of 
this county. Judge Washington J. Berry, and his honor Mayor 
Albert S. Berry, are both great grandsons of Col. James Taylor of 
Virginia. 

At the last census, Campbell ranked in point of population the 
third County in the State. Campbell County, and the City of New- 
port, are still improving, notwithstanding the general financial de- 
pression throughout the land. 

Our hearts were saddened during the winter, by a temporary 
abandonment of the military post, and the transfer of the troops to 
Columbus, Ohio, but the Secretary of War has restored a command 
to Newport barracks. A portion of the 16th Infantry has arriv- 
ed, the flag is again unfurled to the breeze, the drum beats, and' the 
bugle sounds, and with the sunrise and sunset gun a feeling of 
satisfaction has returned. 



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16 HISTORY OF CAMPBELL COUNTY. 

Such, as brief as possible, is a sketch of Campbell Countyfl 
^ jf4r /^ *^ when Liberty Bell sings forth notes of joy for a century accom- 
plished, and a new cycle begun. Our County will not be unrepre- 
sented at the great Centennial ; she will be there in the speci- 
mens of minerals, metals, bones and fossils, which for centuries 
have been hidden in the bosom of her soil ; she will be there in 
the person of her distinguished son, the State Geologist, Mr. N. 
S. Shaler ; and she will be there represented by her many educated 
and refined citizens, who ingoing will attest what a hundred years 
may achieve in a land where freedom of conscience is the corner- 
stone of her political temple. — Ento perpetua. 

MARY K. JONES. 

NEWPORT, Ky., July 4, 1876. 



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